You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming Industry Roundtable Discussion on Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Functional Films and Printed Electronics on 23 January 2012, 12.30pm at the Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech), a research institute of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR). During the round table discussion , we will be presenting SIMTech Consortium project proposal framework on Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Functional Films and Printed Electronics and obtain feedback from industry on the framework on this consortium project.

The global market for Roll-to-Roll manufacturing of functional films and printed electronics is poised for an exciting future and projected to grow ten-fold from US$2.84 billion in 2012 to US$28.5 billion in 2022 (Source: IDTechEx, 2012). Emerging applications driving this high-margin business growth are printed lighting, flexible electronics, large area sensors and photovoltaics.

SIMTech offers comprehensive capabilities including:

- Technology Transfer

- Proof of Concept Validation

- Low Volume Prototyping

- Manufacturing Scale-up validation

- Pilot Production

- Fundamental Processing of Printed Functional Materials

- Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing Processes

- Functional Device Demonstrators (industry defined)

SIMTech would like to launch Consortium project on Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Functional Films and Printed Electronic in Q2 2013. The Proposed Consortium project provides a synergistic means to facilitate participating companies to:

• Identify opportunity in roll-to-roll manufacturing of printed electronics and functional film for your company.

• identify the barriers and gaps faced by local companies in developing roll-to-roll printed electronics capabilities

• appreciate the growing need to achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient and